Animal-shelter.



C. J. BEAR.

ANIMAL SHELTER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17, 1910.

Patented Mar.28,1911.

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UNITED strains '1 orrion.

CARLTON J. BEAR, OF MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS.

ANIMAL-SHELTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

Original application filed February 18, 1910, Serial No. 544,596.Divided and this application filed September 17, 1910. Serial No.582,572.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARLTON J. BEAR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Monticello, in the county of Piatt and State of Illinois,have invented new and useful Improvements in Animal-Shelters, of whichthe following is a specification.

The present invention relates to farrowing pens, and is designedparticularly for use with breeding sows, although it will be understoodthat it may be used as shelter for other small live stock such as sheepand goats, and, furthermore, if desired, it may be utilized as a shelterfor poultry, to which use it is well adapted. I

It is designed particularly for use in fields which may, in someinstances, be far distant from the farm buildings, and where it isextremely desirable that temporary shelter be given to the litters.

It contemplates the provision of a shelter which will be weatherproof,which may be readily moved from place to place, which will be strongenough to withstand the ordinary service and uses to which theseshelters are put, and, furthermore, which will be durable and which canbe produced at a very cheap initial cost, and so far'as repairs areconcerned may be maintained at nominal expense.

The present application is a division of an application forming thesubject matter of patent granted to me September 20, 1910, No. 970,873,the present application being more particularly drawn to the structureof animal shelter having its ends closed and provided with means for theingress and egress of the animals, and for ventilating the interior ofthe shelter.

To these and other ends, the nature of which will be readily understoodas the invention is hereinafter disclosed, said invention consists inthe improved construction and combination of parts, hereinafter fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and fully pointedout in the appended claim.

In the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification Ihave illustrated one embodiment of my invention, and in said drawings-Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a pen made in accordancewith my invention; Fig. 2 is a detail view, illustrating the framestructure of the pen; Fig. 3 is a detail sectional View on line 5-5 ofFig. 1; Fig. 4 is a detail showing the manner of attaching the front tothe shelter proper; Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a pen showing aslightly modified form of holding means; Flg. 6 is a fragmentarycross-sectional view of the connection shown in Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, like numbers indicating likeparts in the several views, 2 denotes the body portion of the shelter,which is preferably made of llght corrugated metal bent into thedomelike form shown, one end of this dome-like body portion being closedby a suitable back A v 3 as clearly shown in the longitudinal section,Fig. 1. The sheet metal portion just described rests upon, and issecured by rivets or 111 any other manner, to a sill frame 4 of L-shapedangle iron of light gage, but sufliciently heavy to give a good stifibase for the sheet metal shelter; this angle iron frame may be ofrectangular form, as shown in Flg. 1, and one limb of the rectangularframe may extend across the open front so as to give great rigidity tothe structure. The shelter thus formed is light, but rigid, and in orderthat the curved front of the domeshaped portion may be further stilfenedI provide it with an arc-shaped stiffening rib 5, of channel iron sothat, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it may be placed over the raw edge ofthe dome 2 at the front thereof, and secured by suitable rivets, thusstiffening the entire structure and protecting the raw or sharp edge ofthe dome 2. At the ends this arc-shaped stiffening rib 5 may be securedto the frame 4, on which the dome 2 rests, all as shown in Figs. 2 and3, so that a relatively rigid structure is provided.

The structure is, of course, light, and in order that it may not bedisplaced or overturned by high winds I preferably provide pins forsecuring it in place in the fields, such means being a guy wire 6 whichis secured at either end to stakes of any suit-- ablematerial, and whichwhen in use is laid across the dome-shaped body portion 2 of the shelterpreferably at the front and rear ends thereof, the wire lying in thecorrugations and the stakes 7 being driven down on either side,preferably close to the shelter,

'until the wire 6 is drawn tightly across the locking seat for the wiresis formed and slip of the wires longitudinally of the dome prevented, sothat displacement of the shelter by animals or by high winds and itsrelease from the securing wires are practically impossible.

I have heretofore stated that the shelter may, if desired, be providedwith a front, and provision may also be made for ventilation; for thispurpose a wooden front 10 is provided which is secured in place in thefront aperture of the shelter, this front 10 being snugly fitted to thedome stiffening arch 5 and resting at its base on the base flange of thebottom frame, and its top being secured by suitable pins 13 which passthrough apertures in a flange of the arch 5 into the edges of the front10 and hold it securely in place. Said front 10 is preferably providedwith a door 11., which, as shown in the present case, is a swingingdoor, although obviously it may be of any type desired. in order thatthe shelter, when provided with a front, may be properly ventilated, Ipreferably provide this form with a swinging ventilator 12 in the rearwall. this ventilator controlling an opening therein, so as to admitmore or less air.

The front 10 may be secured in position by any suitable means, thesimplest design being to make use of pins 13; obviously, other forms ofconnection may be employed, such, for instance, as the clips 20 carriedby the front 10, and having the hooked end 21 adapted to extend over thestiffening rib 5, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the clips being providedwith an opening 22 through which a pin or bolt .43 is adapted to extendand secure the clip to the front 10.

The shelter which I have invented. is cheap to construct, light tohandle, and absolutely weatherproof in use, and it will be seen that itmay be nested in numbers for shipment and storing so as to occupy butlittle room.

Obviously such departures from the present disclosure as amount tomechanical dcviations only, may be made without departing from thespiritof my invention, and for that reason I do not restrict myself tothe details of construction shown and described.

hat I claim is An animal shelter comprising a sill-frame formed ofangle-iron L-shaped in cross-section, a corrugated sheet metal dome, thelower edges of which are riveted to the outer side of the verticalflanges of said sill-frame, a dome stiffening and edge protecting archof channel-iron springing from the sill frame and overhanging andinclosing the raw edge of said dome at the front thereof, saidchannel-iron being secured to both the sill-frame and the dome, and afront wall fitted to said shelter and secured to the face of theoverhanging flange of said channeliron arch.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

CARLTON J. BEAR.

lVitnesses FRANK Hn'risiinn, GEORGE B. NoUKnn.

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